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2014 Leo Burnett Scholarship winners announced

04/21/14 Eleven graphic design students from Fort Hays State University have won scholarships and three received honorable mentions from the Leo Burnett Company of Chicago.

Kerri Soukup, an executive vice president and senior creative director, who is also an FHSU alum, and Timmy Parker, a junior art director who is finishing his degree from FHSU, came to campus from Leo Burnett in Chicago to do portfolio reviews and award the FHSU graphic design program $10,000. Of that money, $5,250 was awarded in scholarships and the other $4,750 went into an art supply fund.

Senior scholarship awards of $500 each went to Long Do, Wichita, Tyler Kruger, Hutchinson, and Gabriela Saravia-Lopez, Lima, Peru.

The first-place junior scholarship, $1,000, went to Mary McDermott, Edmond, Okla. Second-place, $750, went to Kayla Bartlett, Chapman, and third-place, $500, went to Dylan Lang, Hays.